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SUNDAY AM: Amazon bought MGM –a motion picture studio–for $8.45 billion back in May 2021, and this weekend the streamer had their first taste of how wonderful a box office blockbuster is, as MGM/UAR’s Creed III opened to a franchise record of $58.6M. That’s also the highest debut ever for a sports movie…

When a movie gets tangled up in all kinds of financial problems, delayed for over a year, played out internationally, sent straight to streaming in Canada, and then finally getting the green light to open in the U.S. via a new distributor and thrown into…

The winter box office continues to have some breadth as MGM’s Creed III, the feature directorial debut of Michael B. Jordan, eyes a potential franchise-high opening for the Rocky spinoff about Apollo Creed’s son with a $38M-$40M bow at 4,007 theaters. Related Story 'Magazine Dreams' Jona…

Lionsgate is set as the distributor for the action-comedy Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, helmed for Miramax by Guy Ritchie. The film starring Jason Statham (F9), Hugh Grant (Glass Onion), Aubrey Plaza (The White Lotus), Josh Hartnett (Lucky Number Slevin), Cary Elwes (Rebel Moon) and Bugzy Malone (The…

Guy Ritchie was in the middle of shooting Netflix series The Gentlemen in London, an adaptation of his film of the same name and his first foray into the small screen, when he made a brief appearance as a special guest at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah this week. The British…

STX films has made some changes to its 2022 release schedule: The Burbank, CA-studio will be opening supernatural horror Bed Rest on July 15 while Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and The Contractor are going slightly later in the spring. The Lori Evans Taylor directed Bed Rest stars Melissa Barrera as…

Fists swinging and the sound of bullets ringing aplenty in the first footage from Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre, the Guy Ritchie-directed action-comedy that STX is releasing in 2022. Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone and Hugh Grant all star in the pic. The story follows super spy…

STXfilms has pushed back the release dates for Ric Roman Waugh’s drama National Champions and Violence of Action, the thriller starring Chris Pine and Ben Foster, which is now titled The Contractor. National Champions, starring Stephan James, J. K. Simmons, Uzo Aduba, Alexander Ludwig and more, will move from November…